Author: Prescot, Kenrick
Biography:
PRESCOT, Kenrick (1703-79: findmypast.com)
No public birth record has been found but he was born in Chester, Cheshire, in 1703, the son of Sir Henry Prescott, Registrar of the city, and his wife Susanna(h) Puleston, who had married on 11 Aug. 1687 at Bangor-on-Dee, Flintshire, Wales. (The surname is spelled variously with two ts or one.) He was educated at Charterhouse School at Godalming, Surrey, and at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1720, BA 1724, Fellow 1724, MA 1727, BD 1738, DD 1749). He was ordained in 1727 and served several parishes, starting with Stapleford, Cambridgeshire (1727); then Hartland, Devon (1739-52); Coton, Cambridgeshire (1740); St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, Norfolk (1744-50); and Balsham, Cambridgeshire (1752-79). From 1741 until his death he was the Master of St. Catharine’s and a Prebendary of Norwich Cathedral. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University 1744-5. In 1744 he married Mary Appleyard at Yarmouth; they went on to have three children, baptised at Cambridge between 1745 and 1749. He was a busy and, it is said, “a very good natured and friendly Man” (Alumni Carthusiani), and his few publications, produced in the last decade of his life, are with the exception of the scholarly Saint Paul at Athens (1770) relatively lightweight: the two volumes of verse listed here, which are dedicated to friends and were privately printed; a Letter concerning Homer the Sleeper in Horace . . . with additional Classical Amusements (1773); and a short essay, Shakespear (1774). He died at Cambridge on 3 Aug. 1779. (findmypast.com 9 Nov. 2023; ancestry.com 9 Nov. 2023; Alumni Carthusiani [1913]; John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses [1922-54], 3:1, 392; GM Sept. 1779, 470)
Other Names:
- K. P.